How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility
28th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility

Many bloggers are upgrading versions in WordPress at the moment to 2.7 – so when Hendry Lee offered to write this guide to doing it I thought it’d be useful to many. Enjoy. WordPress 2.7 codename “Coltrane” has been released earlier in December 2008, with the most significant change being ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How to Restart a Dead or Dormant Blog
27th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Restart a Dead or Dormant Blog

Got an old dead blog that you want to restart? In this guest post David Peralty of College Crunch shares some tips on how to get it going again! Over the course of time, you might have left one of your blogs, or maybe your only blog to die off. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Why Your Blog Should Do Community Service Work
26th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Why Your Blog Should Do Community Service Work

In this guest post Debbie Dubrow from DeliciousBaby.com looks at the idea of using a blog to do community service work. For most of us, our blogs are a place to share our passions, engage with new people, and hopefully make a little money. I want to share with you ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Seasons Greetings and Why I’m Thankful
25th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Seasons Greetings and Why I’m Thankful

It’s just ticked over to Christmas Day here in Australia and I wanted to take a moment from the normal rhythm of this blog to stop and wish you all a Merry Christmas. Here in Australia we don’t do ‘Thanksgiving’ as a holiday and so in our house Christmas is ...more
ProBlogger Site News
How to Secure an Advertiser for Your Blog
24th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Secure an Advertiser for Your Blog

How do I sell advertising on my blog? It is a question that I’m asked a lot so when Brandon J. Mendelson asked if he could write a post on this topic as someone who has sold a lot of advertising online and in TV I thought it’d make a ...more
Advertising
What to Do With Your Blog Over the Holidays
23rd of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What to Do With Your Blog Over the Holidays

Image by SummachPhoto Today I had a good discussion with my Twitter followers about what they were doing with their blogs over the Christmas break later this week. Most of the answers came down to the strategies that I mention in this old post here at ProBlogger – 7 Things ...more
Reader Questions
Blog Blazers – Get a Glimpse in the Mind of 40 Successful Bloggers
23rd of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Blazers – Get a Glimpse in the Mind of 40 Successful Bloggers

One of the books that has hit my mailbox lately for review is Blog Blazers – a book of interviews with 40 top bloggers exploring how to create successful blogs. The book is by Stephane Grenier from FollowSteph.com and it features some great bloggers (some who will be familiar with ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
3 High-Powered Reader Engagement Tactics
22nd of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

3 High-Powered Reader Engagement Tactics

In this guest post Jonathan Fields from the Career Renegade takes a look at three types of blog posts that will Engage your readers. Three words… Engage. Engage. Engage. It’s the rally cry of great blogging. Heck, it’s the touchstone of powerful writing in general. When it comes to blogging, ...more
Writing Content
If Marilyn Monroe was a Blogger What Would She Do?
21st of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

If Marilyn Monroe was a Blogger What Would She Do?

Today Mara Rogers from Secrets for Money looks at how Marilyn Monroe would blog. If Marilyn Monroe was a Blogger, what would she do? Here are some quotations from famous classic silver screen stars, and what I imagine their advice to all us bloggers would be. So just sit back, ...more
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